When working for a small company, in a creative industry that seems to be changing more and more rapidly, its often hard to keep up to speed with the latest thinking and ensure your skills are up to scratch.
It’s always those things that you know deep down will only take 10minutes to find a solution for that you weirdly view as “time wasting” – like when you know there must be a quicker tool in Photoshop that will undoubtedly save you hours of cursing at the screen. However when you’re working to a deadline, you can never seem to justify the few moments it would take go and work it out.
Skillset have been a huge help to us Muckle Hens this year, assisting us with funding to undertake some excellent advanced training! We undertook a range of courses….
Andrew braved a Prince2 Project Management Course
Victoria tackled a “Hot Shot” Photoshop Course
…and Flora went to the London Film Academy to study a Producing Foundation course.
Besides the obvious benefits of all the extra skills and knowledge an employee gains from training, we also all found it very invigorating to be exercising our brains again, and flirting with new creative ideas that were fed by our experiences. We’ve all brought something back to the hutch to share, and have really been enjoying the benefits it has brought to our daily routines.
So in light of all this clucking about learning… here’s a really helpful website that offers fantastic online software training – www.lynda.com. If you can find a few minutes spare today – then it may well teach you something that will save you hours of time in the future!
